Topic : Politics

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Parliamentary Language
Fri May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010

Contentini, a UK-based content strategy firm, has analyzed 75 years of British parliamentary debates to determine trends in the political use of language. Key words like stakeholder and innovation have risen in usage, while others like industry and men have fallen. Read about it here.
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Behind the Dictionary

Lexicographers Talk About Language

Why the "Doughnut Hole" Metaphor is Inside Out
Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010
By Neal Whitman

The recent passage of health care legislation in the U.S. Congress has got linguist Neal Whitman ruminating over a reform-related metaphor that doesn't make much sense when you stop to think about it.  Continue reading...
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Word Routes

Exploring the pathways of our lexicon

Bridge That Gap!
Tue Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2010
By Ben Zimmer

During President Obama's health care summit last week, Republican House Whip Eric Cantor suffered a bit of a misspeak, saying: "We have a very difficult bridge to gap here." Whoops! It's the gap that needs bridging, of course, not vice versa.  Continue reading...
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Behind the Dictionary

Lexicographers Talk About Language

Quotable Moments of '09
Thu Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2009

Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is constantly on the lookout for new quotations that might make the cut for the next edition of his authoritative quotation dictionary. Below, find out what he thinks are the top ten quotations of 2009.  Continue reading...
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Word Routes

Exploring the pathways of our lexicon

A New Political Eponym Barges in
Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2009
By Ben Zimmer

This time last year, David Letterman was making jokes about Blagojeviching, playing on the name of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Now we've got a brand-new political eponym on our hands: Salahi is being used as a verb meaning "to gate-crash an official event."  Continue reading...
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Obama the Verb
Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2009

From the blogosphere comes news that President Obama's name has become an eponym, but not in English. In Japanese, Obama has transformed into obamu — a verb that means, according to one blogger, "to ignore inexpedient and inconvenient facts or realities."  Continue reading...
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Useful sites for educators

Bone up on the Constitution: It's the Law
Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2009

Tomorrow is September 17th — otherwise known as Constitution Day, a day when all U.S. educational institutions that receive federal funding are required by law to pay a little attention to the document that was signed on September 17, 1787.

Teachers, check out the following links to discover some fun ways to spend Constitution Day.  Continue reading...
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